February 22, 2008

Castro on the other hand

Over at the Glasperlenspiel that is Crooked Timber, Chris Bertram adds his 2 cents worth to the coverage of Castro's retirement:
So let’s hear it for universal literacy and decent standards of health care. Let’s hear it for the Cubans who help defeat the South Africans and their allies in Angola and thereby prepared the end of apartheid. Let’s hear it for the middle-aged Cuban construction workers who held off the US forces for a while on Grenada. Let’s hear it for Elian Gonzalez. Let’s hear it for 49 years of defiance in the face of the US blockade. Hasta la victoria siempre!
Hmm.

I'm with Armed Liberal on this one: "If the price of universal literacy is prison camps for writers, count me out."